Assignment V equality

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Tim Shoppa wrote:
> >>Hang on a minute, does anyone *really* find the use of "=" as
> >>assignation, and "="
> >>as equivalence, in *any way* confusing?
> >
> > No, but I have extreme difficulties that on some machines you
> > have to click "Start" to stop, and you have to click on "my computer"
> > even though it's not my computer.
>
> Well, they cribbed from the best.  I like to annoy Macintosh zealots by
> reminding them that, for over a decade, you put a file in the Trash to delete
> it, but when you put a disk in the Trash, it... pops out of the machine.  One
> would assume putting a disk in the Trash would format/erase it.

I'd assume it would suck it up through the back of the machine, incinerate
it, and then send the ashes out the back exhaust vent.

But maybe I just expect too much from my digital implements.

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